When it was first established in 1919, National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) only had one department—the Department of Agroforestry. Since that time, it has become one of Taiwan’s most long-standing comprehensive research universities and the third largest national university on the island, with 12 colleges spanning the fields of the humanities and social sciences, science and technology, agriculture and medicine. Today, NCHU is continuing to build on its rich history as an educational institution by developing programs that equip students with a strong competitive advantage, with the ultimate goal of becoming a world-class comprehensive research university with far-reaching influence.

Founded in 1919 as the Government-General of Taiwan’s Advanced Academy of Agronomy and Forestry, NCHU attained its present form in 1971 following numerous school mergers and name changes. As of 2022, the University has 12 colleges of Liberal Arts, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Science, Engineering, Life Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, Management, Law and Politics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Medicine, Academy of Circular Economy and Innovation and Industry Liaison. With more than a century of history, NCHU is one of the most long-standing higher education institutions in Taiwan.

Here you will find the NCHU academic calendar for the current academic year.

NCHU students who encounter sexual molestation, harassment, or bullying on campus may file a complaint with the University or request legal consultation and counseling.

1. “Campus bullying” refers to any type of bullying behavior imposed on students of the University on or off campus by any faculty member, employee, contract worker, or student, regardless of their affiliation with NCHU.

2. Elements that constitute campus bullying:

• Behavior that disadvantages the victim
• Intent to harm the victim
• Causing physical or emotional damage to the victim
• Unequal power relations existing between the imposer and the victim.
• Other incidents deemed as bullying by the Campus Bullying Response Group.

3. The Ministry of Education Anti-Bullying Hotline (1953) has specialists online 24/7 to offer counseling and bullying reporting services.

1. To provide faculty, staff, and students with comprehensive medical consultation services, NCHU has appointed five of the directors and attending physicians employed by its affiliated teaching hospital to each offer a session of professional medical consultation one day per week.
2. Click the link below to see a schedule of available medical consultation sessions.
3. Pursuant to the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, campus physicians may only provide medical consultation and will not be able to prescribe any oral or external medications.

1. When receiving a suspicious phone call, remember the “hear, hang up, and verify” principle. Hang up the phone immediately if you hear something suspicious, and call the 165 Fraud Prevention Hotline for verification. Do not transfer any money at a bank or ATM to avoid being scammed.
2. Fraud prevention: Please add Trend Micro Fraud Prevention Pro as a friend on LINE, install the Trend Micro Check browser extension, turn off iMessage when not in use, and keep the 3C (calm-check-call) principle in mind.
3. What to do if you have been scammed: Collect the necessary supporting documents and file a police report at the local police station or via the National Police Agency website, through which you may follow up on updates to your case.

The Office of Student Safety has dedicated staff on call 24/7/365 to assist students experiencing an emergency: (04) 22870885.

1. Service introduction: International students who encounter difficulty adjusting to life in Taiwan, emotional distress, or interpersonal relationship issues may apply for counseling online, and the University will arrange counseling sessions with a therapist.
2. Method of application:

1) All individual psychological counseling service is on an appointment basis. Please login “NCHU single sign on system”->”All Application Entry” → “Psychological Counseling system”to apply for counselling service.
※P.S. If you’re facing trouble making online appointment, you may also phone the center with no. 04-22840241 ext. 39 during office hours or visit the center in person to make an appointment instead.
2) Notification of appointment time: The center will match you with a suitable psychologist according to your expectations for consultation and convenient meeting time. After matching you with a suitable psychologist for you, you will be notified by text message and E-mail. Please wait patiently.
3) Number of sessions: In principle, each student may reserve up to two courses of treatment of six 50-minute weekly sessions each per semester.
4) Fees: Unless otherwise stipulated, the Center’s counseling services are provided to University students free of charge.
5) Confidentiality: The Center and its counselors will keep your information strictly confidential, except in circumstances of imminent danger posed to the lives of the student themselves or to others that necessitate a mandatory report according to the law.
6) Safety: For the safety of all parties involved, dangerous objects are prohibited in the counseling space.

The school cafeteria is operated by a contractor that offers a variety of dining options, including an à la carte buffet, themed restaurants, a fast food place, and a convenience store. The cafeteria is a great place to hang out with other faculty members, students, and people from neighboring communities.

The NCHU Sports Facilities Management Regulations provide details (including application procedures and a fee schedule) for renting sports venues at the University (including the gym, sports field, rock-climbing wall, swimming pool, outdoor basketball courts, and outdoor volleyball courts) as well as usage guidelines and notices for each venue. The regulations also contain information on the available hours of all sports facilities during school semesters and summer/winter vacations.

To support our faculty and students in teaching, research, and learning, the NCHU Library website offers a wide range of services, including resource inquiries, reader service, and the latest news. The Library currently has more than 2 million top-quality books, journals, and electronic/digital resources available for quick access by faculty members and students.

Founded in 2012, the National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) Press publishes works by NCHU faculty and students. By specializing in publishing academic monographs and scholarly journals, the NCHU Press promotes the production of scholarly works and strengthens the reputation of NCHU as a research university.

To support faculty members’ and students’ teaching, research, learning, coursework, and recreational needs, the NCHU Library Multimedia Center has a wide collection of audiovisual media, tabletop games, and scientific exploration materials produced in Taiwan and abroad featuring educational and informative contents. The center also offers well-equipped spaces for faculties and students to use. The “Media Maker Space” is a public multimedia platform that supports mobile phones, desktops, and tablet computers. It provides open workspaces and discussion communities to allow readers to exchange ideas on audiovisual creations.

As part of NCHU’s 100th Anniversary, the area in front of the 1F copy room was remodeled into the NCHU Collection, which showcases around 1,500 works by NCHU faculty members as a means of demonstrating the University’s academic influence and the efforts of university faculty to pursue the advancement of research and knowledge. The official opening ceremony of the “NCHU Collection” was held on November 28, 2019.

The library processes book donations according to the “The National Chung Hsing University Library Guidelines for Donating Library Materials”.

Donors are asked to fill out the National Chung Hsing University Library Donated Library Materials Processing Form and List of Donated Library Materials and e-mail them to lcshaw@dragon.nchu.edu.tw. Alternatively, donors may hand copy of each form to staff at the Circulation Desk.

Eager to learn more about the resources and services available at the NCHU Library? Looking to improve your research skills? If so, you may want to explore the following options:

– Take a self-learning course online

– Sign up for a mini-instruction course

– Sign up for the library instruction courses

– Faculty can request Library Instruction for their classes

The Reference desk provides library patrons with information about the library resources and services of the Library, whether via the Internet, telephone, email or in person. A “frequently asked questions” (FAQs) section is also available.

Current full-time employees and students of the University may apply for the interuniversity library service via the University Library Coalition of Central Taiwan (ULCCT). See the following notes for details.

Email accounts issued to NCHU students and faculty members may only be used for official or academic research purposes.

Wireless Internet may be accessed via an authentication webpage. NCHU faculty members and students can select the “NCHU” network and enter their email address and password to get connected.

Devices must be assigned a fixed IP address to access the campus network.

Please contact the network administrator at your department office to request an IP address, and please abide by the Campus Network Usage Guidelines.

Faculty members and students can access the Google for Education service, which includes Gmail, Google Drive, and other useful applications. Please note that Gmail accounts are NOT considered official NCHU accounts. Internal messages will be sent to your @nchu.edu.tw and @mail.nchu.edu.tw accounts only. Pursuant to the Ministry of Education’s Education Email Service and Safety Management Guidelines, public and important official matters must be communicated via official, school-issued email accounts.

The Computer and Information Network Center procures software and updates based on the needs of the University on an annual basis.

Unless otherwise noted, software licenses are valid on NCHU campuses only.

Please follow the terms and conditions of software licenses and respect intellectual property rights.

The University offers single sign-on (SSO) service to allow for easy access to important online resources without requiring separate authentication. Users only need to remember one set of login credentials to access all online services.

The NCHU Art Center organizes art exhibitions and cultural exchanges, assists in the beautification of the campus, and works to improve faculty and students’ appreciation of art and strengthen their aesthetic education. The Center invites well-known local and international artists to hold exhibitions at the University after recommendation and approval by a consulting and review committee composed of experts and scholars. Each exhibition usually lasts about a month, and an average of eight art exhibitions are planned every year. The Center also organizes activities, international exchanges, lectures, presentations, symposiums, workshops, and other art and cultural events in conjunction with university campaigns. Additionally, the Center has a well-equipped curation room with a collection of over 1500 artworks, and publishes collection catalogues as a medium to promote cultural exchange.

General waste disposal: General waste (including kitchen waste) is collected by campus garbage trucks at fixed locations between 8:20–10:35 a.m. every business day.

* Note: Please store general waste in transparent plastic bags only.

Recycling: Recyclable materials are collected by recycling trucks at fixed locations between 8:20–10:35 a.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays.

On Tuesday: Paper lunch boxes and non-paper materials (including iron cans, aluminum cans, plastic bottles, plastic containers, and recyclable plastic products)

On Friday: Paper lunch boxes and other paper materials

*Paper lunch boxes must be properly cleaned before disposal to ensure that no leftovers remain.

NCHU students can log into the system to view their registration status, student status, grades, class ranking, and other information.

1. Introduction:

Each counseling session is led by a professional counselor who guides participants to better understand themselves and their ideas, thoughts, and attitudes towards life through a series of explorative, topic-based activities. If you and your classmates are interested, you can sign up for a session or ask your academic advisor to do it for you.

2. Application procedures:

1) Download the application form from the Health and Counseling Center website.

2) Email the completed form to counsel@nchu.edu.tw.

3) Applications must be submitted at least 20 days in advance. A staff member will call or email you within 3 business days of receiving your application to confirm the details of the appointment.

4) Three days prior to the appointment, the staff member will call you again to confirm the contents of the counseling session and the necessary preparations on your part.

5) After the counseling session, participants are required to fill out a feedback questionnaire.

1. Procedures for Income Tax Withholding

2. Income Tax FAQs for Non-Resident Aliens

The minimum legal age for drinking and smoking is 20 in Taiwan, and driving under the influence of alcohol is strictly prohibited by law. Furthermore, cigarettes and alcoholic beverages are prohibited throughout NCHU.Many international students have fallen victim to scam calls, which are prevalent in Taiwan. As a reminder, do not provide any personal information such as your bank account number, online banking login credentials, date of birth, and even the romanized spelling of your name, as such information can be used to gain control of your bank account. When you receive a call from an unknown caller who claims to be a government, telecom, or bank employee, do not answer any questions or listen to their orders. Your best course of action is to hang up immediately, or ask for their number and report it to the 165 Antifraud Hotline (reachable by cellphones) to see if it is indeed a scam call.

Employees who wish to apply for NHI coverage for themselves or their dependents may visit the NHI and Labor Insurance Application and Change System (link available on the Personnel Department website) and provide their or their dependents’ personal information and the starting date of the coverage.

To file a labor insurance claim, download and fill out the appropriate form on the Bureau of Labor Insurance website and submit it to the Personnel Department, which will review the form and attach a seal of approval.

Textbook Service allows the NCHU faculty to submit textbook requests to the Library. It aims to work with instructors to make assigned textbooks available to students. Patrons can refer to the textbook lists through the Library’s website as well. To ensure that course resources are as accessible as possible, the designated textbooks can only be checked out for a short loan period. Print books can be borrowed for 14 days and multimedia items offer a 5-day loan. Renewals are not permitted.

Professors may reserve reference materials for their courses. These may include books, periodicals, multimedia materials, journal articles, electronic resources, or self-made materials.Students can use the WebPAC’s “Course Reserves” function to look up and read materials for the current semester.To access course reserve materials, please present your student ID at the 1F Reference Information Desk or the 3F Multimedia Center and provide the name of the course and instructor.Please follow the usage guidelines so that more students are able to utilize course reserve materials.

Turnitin contains more than 99 billion webpages, 1.8 billion student papers, and 89 million scholarly articles.

Features:

*Compare faculty and student works, reports, and assignments to existing pieces of writing in its database.

*Produce a similarity report with a similarity score percentage.

* Help authors to verify the originality and quality of their writing before official publication.

* Review whether any citations are missing.

This section includes:

Graduate student school-leaving procedure

Account application

User manual and handbook

FAQs

Point of contact by college

To fully utilize the Library’s collections, we employ the LibGuides system to create catalogues tailored to individual departments and graduate institutes so as to meet their different teaching and research needs, develop and customize collection utilization guides, and facilitate timely access to resources by faculty members and students as they work on their academic writings and research projects.

Open access (OA) means free access to information and unrestricted use of academic resources on the Internet.

You can use a variety of tools to check whether a journal is open access or is actually a predatory journal before submitting your paper.

The Library provides information on publishing fee discounts for OA journals. Please read the relevant instructions if you are interested.

Established as an agricultural school, National Chung Hsing University not only has contributed significantly to the development of Taiwan’s agriculture but also excels on multiple academic fronts. The University’s achievements in biological, agricultural resources, scientific, engineering, humanities, and social sciences research are hard to ignore. In 2012, the NCHU Library founded the NCHU Press, whose purpose is to encourage faculty members and students to share their outstanding teaching and research achievements with the world through academic publishing. The NCHU Press’ vision is to strive for excellence in scholarly publishing and the promotion of knowledge by releasing quality academic works, with the ultimate goal of becoming one of the world’s leading university presses.

The 360-Degree Panoramic images allow you to explore every corner of the Library with a few swipes of your fingertip.

The Library consists of six divisions:

Acquisitions and Cataloging Division

Collection Management and Circulation Services Division

Reference Services Division

Digital Resources Division

Information System Division

University Archives Division

The Library’s Exhibition Area, 6F Conference Hall, 6F Meeting Rooms, training room, and Group Audiovisual Room are available for rent.

The NCHU Library Digital Maker Studio provides an environment that fosters innovation, proactive learning, self-exploration, and creative thinking in all subject areas. It provides access to several modern digital technologies, including 3D scanners, LCD & FDM 3D printers, heat press machines, laser cutters, and specialty software to help students turn creative ideas into reality, hone their problem-solving skills, and practice what they learn in class through hands-on experience.

The NCHU Library provides interlibrary loan and document delivery services . Please read the following instructions carefully before selecting your desired service.

These services are available only to current NCHU faculty, staff, and students and NCHU alumni with a library card.

Please read the Interlibrary Loan terms of service before submitting an application.

Since May 2006, our university has been promoting the digitization of theses. The system has collected over 34,000 theses from June 2006 to the present, while offering services for thesis submission, browsing, and searching.

National Chung Hsing University Instructions for Applying for a Library Tour

The Library provides NCHU faculty, staff, and students with interlibrary loan service from the libraries of 24 partner universities in Central Taiwan, 24 other academic institutions and higher education institutions, and 3 teaching hospitals.

The NCHU Library built the Digital Learning Resources Platform to satisfy readers’ desire to learn no matter the time or place. The Platform contains library guides, library resource utilization courses, database query instructions, lectures, and computer software courses.

An investigation into occupational accidents reveals that the majority (>80%) of accidents are caused by human error or unsafe behavior.

The most effective way to prevent such accidents is through labor safety and health training. This training helps promote safe working methods and correct hygiene practices, thereby preventing losses or injuries caused by occupational accidents.

The investigations into occupational accidents found that ‘man-caused factors’ are the major reasons behind these incidents. Approximately 80% of unsafe actions originate from human activities.

The prevention and control measures rely on the promotion of “labor occupational health and safety education and training.” This education and training help establish safe working methods and correct hygiene concepts for employees, effectively preventing losses and damages caused by occupational accidents.

It’s Foreign Student Insurance (International Students’ Group Medical Insurance). FSI is provided for the foreign students who are not eligible for National Health Insurance. A foreign student who does not have NHI is mandatory to enroll in the FSI plan, and the fee will be included in the tuition bill.

Rights and Responsibilities for International Students(Foreigners) Joining the National Health Insurance (NHI).
Program of the R.O.C.Foreigners with an Alien Resident Certificate (ARC) who have resided in Taiwan for more than six months are required to enroll in the National Health Insurance (NHI) program. (Within the six months, if the applicant leaves Taiwan for 2 times and more, or the departure time is longer than 1 month, the period will be recalculated.)

It’s Students Safety Insurance. SSI is required as the basic insurance plan for all registered NCHU students. All NCHU degree-seeking students are required to enroll in the SSI plan every semester.

In 2024, NCHU signed contracts with 34 designated medical institutions, including 10 hospitals and 24 clinics, to offer discounts on consultation registration fees and certain out-of-pocket medical expenses for our faculty and students.

※ Discounts will only be applied if the official student or faculty identification document is presented during the consultation.

※ All contracted hospitals and clinics are bilingual-friendly.